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Biography

I am a lecturer in Italian and Children's Studies at NUI Galway. I am the Director of the BA Connect with Children's Studies and Chairperson of the Board of Management for Galway Steiner National School, Knocknacarra. I believe that creativity, self-confidence and an ability to engage in critical thinking are the most important skills that we can cultivate in our young people and it is my mission to foster these as best I can in my teaching, research and community involvement. I am a firm supporter of the Arts in education and my own research focuses on comparative children's literature and film, creativity and pedagogy.

'Meo's Fists - Fighting For or Against Fascism? The Subversive Nature of Text and Image in Giovanni Bertinetti's I pugni di Meo'
Myers, L (2008) 'Meo's Fists - Fighting For or Against Fascism? The Subversive Nature of Text and Image in Giovanni Bertinetti's I pugni di Meo'. International Research In Childrens Literature, 1 :1-15 [DOI] [Details]

Teaching Interests

My teaching interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century children's literature and film, fantasy literature and fairytales, children's literature in translation, twentieth-century italian children's literature and society, twentieth-century Italian literature, Italian language from beginners to Advanced and translation techniques. I also teach courses on designing creative workshops for young children and on children's play as part of the BA with Children's Studies.

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National University of Ireland
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